Bishop of Saint Catharines
Bishop Gerard Paul Bergie was born on January 4, 1959 in Hamilton, Ontario. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 12, 1984 for the Diocese of Hamilton, and named Auxiliary Bishop of Hamilton in July 2005. He studied at St. Jerome’s College, the University of Waterloo and St. Peter’s Seminary, London, Ontario. He received a master’s degree in Divinity from the University of Western Ontario in 1983 and a licentiate in Canon Law from the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome in 1991. Bishop Bergie is currently a member of the English Sector Episcopal Commission for Catechesis of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) and a member of the Catholic-United Church of Canada Theological Dialogue.